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The Crystal Palace was first erected in Hyde Park, central
London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851 which put on display
all a cornucopia of commodities, the products of the new industrial
system. The exhibition was a project launched by Prince Albert in
1849 in his capacity as President of the Royal Society of Arts and
Manufactures and was intended to provide an opportunity for
manufacturers to display all the wonders of the modern commercial
world. Despite the short notice, some 14,000 exhibitors attended
from all over the …

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Citation:
Clark, Robert. "Great Exhibition and construction of Crystal Palace". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 February 2005
[https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1257, accessed 18 February 2018.]

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